UC San Diego

Palming Off is a ficto-critical performing archive of the work of Ashley Elizabeth Smith. In a mode of excess, writing is performed to stun the senses. The notion of the "palm off" is considered through various mythopoetic methods and means.

Situated in the proximity betwixt the sun-worshipped borderlands and an intellectual factory of biotech dreams, the Southern Subject yearns to throw itself, fight the self-absorbed lean, and eat the other before it is eaten. This fever child varietal scours the strip mall and the canyon in search of new myths and if the culture or drugs it's being served doesn't cut it, it will surely self-induce the unheimlich maneuver.